SCREMS: High Performance Scientific Computing Environment

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The Departments of Mathematical Sciences and of Computer Science at Kent State University will purchasea high performance parallel cluster computer to enhance the research and educational activities inthe area of applied mathematics and scientific computing at both departments.Scientific computing has become an important investigation tool in many areas of science and engineering.High performance computing on large parallel clusters is routinely required for many research andapplication problems. The Departments of Mathematical Sciences and of Computer Science at Kent StateUniversity have research areas which includeparallel numerical algorithms for solving boundary value problems for partial differential equations,iterative solution methods for large linear systems of equations, iterative methods for the computations ofa few eigenvalues or singular values of a large matrix, solution of large-scale ill-posed problems, imageprocessing, simulation and analysis of liquid crystals, etc.The cluster computer will contain one master node and 12 computation/visualization nodes connectedthrough a high speed InfiniBand network in a single rack. Each computation node contains 4 processors(two 2.8GHz dual-core AMD CPUs) with dual PCI-E graphics cards and 32GB of RAM. This highperformance computing environment will provide sufficient computing support for high-quality researchactivities in the area of applied mathematics and scientific computing at both departments.